ANT211H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article: Property Crime, Inclusive Fitness, Ovulation
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Due to child rearing, women greatly benefit from help: kinwomen in some cultures work to ensure virginity and prevent infidelity via. Claustration in order to receive the benefit of male provisioning: in hunter-gatherer societies, women are responsible for the bulk of the calories consumed by the family (via foraging, a way to secure resources is crime. Serious and victim-full crime in the highest in the lowest social classes. The typical female offender is poor and uneducated, often a member of a minority group, and dependant on limited resources to care for herself and her children. Property crime is a woman"s direct way of securing resources. Female property crime rates are more a result of female economic marginalization than of criminal opportunity. Female unemployment: violent offences, female-female competition. 73% of attacks on girls are from other girls. Most violent crimes that take place are of people of the same sex and same age group.
